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Update | 11:11 a.m. See below for some thoughts on the limits of Dr. Dobelle’s survey, and references to other institutions that might have merited inclusion on his list.

Here’s a way for students and parents to size up potential colleges using a metric not found in most guide books: Which institutions have the best relationships, fiscal and otherwise, with the communities in which they reside?

Sal DiMarco Jr. for The New York TimesThe University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia.

The value in Dr. Dobelle’s survey, as I see it, lies not in its billing as yet another attempt to “rank” colleges as if they were refrigerators or tires. Instead I hope that his study might train high-school students’ attention (and their parents’, too) on institutions that might not otherwise be on their radar. (That any such effort is incomplete is made obvious by several comments below this post highlighting the community work of Bates and Fordham, among other institutions.)Read more…